Taupo TOP 10 Holiday Park

We stayed in Kitchen Cabin No. 25 and found it to be really lovely — modern, clean, and well-equipped with everything we needed. The park itself was easy to get around and in a great location, close enough to town for convenience but still nice and peaceful. The facilities were excellent — we especially enjoyed the heated thermal pool and the regular pool. The toilets and shared areas were also well-maintained and up to a good standard. Overall, a really enjoyable and comfortable stay. Would definitely stay again!

While the staff were pleastant and facilities great, the gritty brown mud dust swirling from the unoccupied campsites up wind of us was the pits. Large dust whirlwinds as high as the trees (20ft) were constantly coating our gear, car and tent. It also got into our tent and under our tent fly and coated us, our sleeping bags, pillows, electric fridge and power bank (which both have intake vents). We woke up with gritty teeth and hacking coughs - wouldn't recommend this at all as an asthmatic. We shifted to another site after the first night and had the same problem. We then surrounded our tent with all the towels we had available and borrowed 2 more from the office that we used to try to block the dust from getting under our tent fly though we only had enough to surrounded ¾ of our tent on the windward side. As well as being physically distressing and uncomfortable it was pretty sad seeing all of our nice clean camping gear and our car get trashed with mud dust. We also couldn't cook, eat or relax with a drink on our site or hang up our wet gear either. This mud dust problem would probably be fine if you're hermetically sealed inside a campervan but was extremely unhealthy for tenting. We've loved other Top 10 camp grounds we've stayed at at this time of year but have not faced this problem before. Still have the cough but nice to no longer have gritty teeth and eyes.

This one ranks as one of my favourite TOP10s. My family and I especially enjoyed the kitchen and dining area. Also the outside seating area is great. We also loved the thermal pool and found the family bathroom really handy. In general all facilities were really well kept. Only flaw would be its distance to the city.

1.5km from town center but very nice place. Kitchen is great. There's a big tent outside that covers the bbq. A humongous TV and games. Toilets are very clean. The rooms have 4 bunk beds. Up to 4 ppl so have the top bunk

Only location was good. The rooms are dated there is no aircon, The bunks have thin mattress and you can feel the springs and the bed squeaks. And the dust from the gravel that is right in front of the rooms and you have to choose from suffocating from the heat in your room or have a breeze with dust coming in. For the price it’s a complete rip off The staff don’t even know their area and are like I don’t know sorry - like don’t you live in Taupo 😂 Don’t stay here if you value your sleep or your health Bloody yuck 🤮

Can’t really fault the campsite. Great space and all is good, however would have given 5 stars but the hot water for the showers were nonexistent. Showered in the mornings and evenings but both times hot water was not present. Evening shower was at like 11, so should be great but nothing.

Lovely park, very clean, quiet, nice staff. The big problem was there was no hot water, over three days, to shower or do the dishes. A big topic of conversation in the kitchen. The water was tepid, too cold to shower or do dishes. Three different reasons from three different members of staff. Would go back, in a heartbeat, if the gas line was put in and we could shower. Fortunately, we were able to shower in our caravan. Not an option in a tent.

Kids were so excited for the pool slide however this was broken when we arrived and we had no mention of this and there is nothing on the website, kids were very disappointed. We arrived at the park earlier than our check in time with our young kids, the lady at reception who said she was one of the owners wasn't very receptive or welcoming at all to the fact we were early, we weren't offered an option to pay to use the facilities while we waited for the hour until check in, she didn't offer to check which room we were in to see if it was ready (the park was very empty and hardly any of the motels were in use), we expected a little more people skills and friendly welcome, we felt like a burden and were basically told to leave and return later (we would've happily paid the visitor rates to use the pool or facilities while we waited but no option was given) We stayed in the superior motel room which we were really happy with, comfy beds & spacious.

Good heater inside cabin but NO POWERPOINTS TO CHARGE MY DEVICES!! :( :( Yes that is a huge letdown to make it a 2 star..